What a truly remarkable and surreal experience this has been. Leaving the bush I have almost retraced my journey to a tee, but everything is in stark contrast to my arrival, everything is now somehow different… The charter flight arrived without a hitch and we went about a very quick handover. About half an hour all up, no long good byes or lengthy overlap this time. J.C arrived with some food the pilot hung about waiting as we took care of administration then...

Well this is it. My last night at Mibango and I better get out to the guys and do some celebrating. It's sad to leave this place but the craziness is far from over with a few days in Kigoma and Dar Es Salam and then a month in Nepal. Sorry no big blog tonight, just a quick check in to say thank you to everyone who has said hello on here, all your thoughts were much appreciated and many good for a laugh, keeping me sane on the quiet days here and especially to t...

It's time for some more juice from the jungle and though my old foe, the office door frame, has again struck and left me gripping my head and cursing through gritted teeth, I have stories to tell so without further ado, welcome back. Well, it has again been awhile, I came to the quiet calmness of remote Africa with grand plans to write a book and have wound up becoming totally immersed in the place, distracted by the plants, people and projects here and with onl...

It has been awhile since I've put together a good read on here but I reckon this one should be worth the wait… There's something undeniably satisfying about reconnecting with nature and producing my own food. I spend a lot of time in the garden these days, preparing for a visit by students working on the school demonstration garden to give them a chance to see what an established garden produces. There are now four compost bays installed with the first batch...

A fitting end to the the day here, is the staff mess at night and in particular seeing what will be attracted to the only lights for miles. Dazed bats are pretty regular, flying in, bumbling around, then flying out again but the insects tend to occur in once off waves of whatever has hatched at the time. There was the night of the kumbi kumbi (the flying termites), nights featuring huge numbers of single species of moth and then there was the night of the two inc...